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Valentino's new designer puts on maximalist Paris ready-to-wear debut 09/29/2024 11:29am • PARIS (AP) ��� Alessandro Michele���s eagerly awaited ready-to-wear Paris Fashion Week debut at Valentino was unveiled in a setting that hinted at a transformation��� a living room in flux. Stools, ladders, and lamps shrouded beneath white blankets evoked a house renovation, signaling not just chan She defended 'El Chapo.' Now this lawyer is using her narco-fame to launch a music career 09/29/2024 12:01am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Riding in a black SUV with tinted windows, lawyer Mariel Col��n rolls up to the gates of a remote mansion, strolling past a security guard side-by-side with Emma Coronel, the wife of notorious drug lord Joaqu��n ���El Chapo��� Guzm��n. Sporting suits and sunglasses, the pair str Urban communities that lack shade sizzle when it's hot. Trees are a climate change solution 09/28/2024 09:32am • DETROIT (AP) ��� Along a busy road in west Detroit, there's little respite from the sun for residents stopping for gasoline, attending places of worship or bringing children to daycare. But a budding canopy of trees planted this year will change the look and feel of this corridor. Detroit and other Prince fans can party overnight like it's 1999 with Airbnb rental of 'Purple Rain' house 09/27/2024 06:14pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� For a short time, up to 100 Prince fans visiting the music superstar's hometown will have a place to stay when the party's over that will let them go crazy over his cultural legacy, a home featured in the film ���Purple Rain.��� Although the white, two-story home with brown trim Wisconsin city's mailing of duplicate absentee ballots raises confusion, questions over elections 09/27/2024 03:36pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� When the elections clerk in Wisconsin's heavily Democratic capital city of Madison announced on Monday that duplicate absentee ballots had mistakenly been sent to around 2,000 voters, it ignited concerns about election integrity from a Republican congressman and others on the Boo! Opening night of popular Field of Screams delayed amid Montgomery Co. permit issues 09/27/2024 08:52am • For over two decades, the popular Field of Screams Maryland at the Olney Boys and Girls Club has been hailed as a Hollywood-caliber haunted attraction. But Friday's scheduled opening night has been canceled, amid a yearslong permit dispute with Montgomery County. WTOP takes an exclusive look at what Japan's soon-to-be prime minister faces big challenge as he tries to move past ruling party scandals 09/27/2024 08:42am • TOKYO (AP) ��� The person chosen Friday to lead Japan's governing party, and become prime minister next week, is a veteran politician with deep policy experience, a taste for curry and anime ��� and big challenges ahead of him as he tries to unite a fractious party and hold off an opposition eager t Family and rights groups urge Egypt to free imprisoned activist as his 5-year sentence ends 09/27/2024 12:37am • LONDON (AP) ��� Rights groups and the family of convicted Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah on Thursday called on authorities to release him at the end of his five-year sentence next week. Abdel-Fattah, an outspoken dissident, rose to prominence with the 2011 pro-democracy uprisings that swept th Tone deaf and color blind? Catholic Church struggles to keep accused abusers out of religious art 09/26/2024 10:21pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Little brings more heavenly bliss to the faithful or otherworldly wonder to casual visitors than ethereal hymns cascading amid the columns of Catholic cathedrals. That is, unless the composer is a known molester or someone accused of sexual abuse. A few days before the highlight of Old newspaper boxes are being used to distribute the overdose reversal drug Narcan 09/26/2024 08:07pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� For decades, Jeff Card's family company was known for manufacturing the once ubiquitous tin boxes where people could buy newspapers on the street. Today, reach into one of his containers and you may find something entirely different and free of charge: Naloxone, the opioid 10 Legit and Easy Ways to Get Free Money 09/26/2024 08:00pm • Trying to pay bills and build savings with limited funds is an all too common dilemma. Sometimes there's just not enough money to go around. A 2024 Pymnts report found that 62% of consumers lived paycheck to paycheck, including 36% of those with annual earnings of more than $200,000. To relieve that Harris says the right to be safe is a civil right as Biden signs order on gun technology 09/26/2024 07:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday she believes the right to be safe is a civil right ��� and that means a right to live free from gun violence ��� as President Joe Biden signed an executive order that seeks to restrict new technologies that make guns easier to fire and o Republican-led group sues to block Georgia rule requiring hand count of ballots 09/26/2024 05:54pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A Republican-led group is challenging Georgia's new requirement that poll workers count the total number of ballots by hand, saying it's another example of the State Election Board overstepping its legal authority. Eternal Vigilance Action amended its existing lawsuit on Wednesday t Military recruiting rebounds after several tough years, but challenges remain 09/26/2024 08:44am • FORT JACKSON, South Carolina (AP) ��� After several very difficult years and a swath of new programs and enticements, the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force will all meet their recruiting goals by the end of this month and the Navy will come very close, the military services say. The res Nine ruling party candidates vie to replace Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Kishida 09/25/2024 11:29pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� A record nine candidates are running in Japan's ruling party election Friday to replace outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. A former defense minister who is a longtime veteran, the relatively young son of a popular former prime minister and the economic security minister who would